Attentional Re-training for Chronic Pain Patients
TerminatedNot applicableNCT04150419
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Hyper-vigilance, focusing, avoidance are part of the vocabulary used by the clinician who deals with chronic pain. These notions refer to the functioning and dysfunction of so-called "selective" attention. These "selective attentional biases" are believed to be responsible, in part, for the development and maintenance of negative pain-related thoughts (such as catastrophic thoughts), inappropriate behaviours (such as inactivity and fear of movement) and unpleasant emotions (such as stress or anger). In addition, they would also be a powerful indicator of the onset of post-operative pain and could limit the effectiveness of therapeutic management. Therapeutically, attention bias can be "managed" through attentional re-training techniques (ABMs) that teach patients to direct their attention differently. These techniques have been widely validated in anxious or addictive populations but have never been used to date in chronic pain patients. This home-based attention bias management (e-retraining) would represent, for chronic pain patients, an additional tool aimed not only at reducing their pain but also at achieving other associated factors such as anxiety, stress, catastrophic thoughts, avoidance behaviours and quality of life.
Study details
- Official title
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Program for the Attentional Re-training of Chronic Pain Patients: Feasibility of E-care
- Conditions
- Chronic Pelvic Perinal Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Group 1
- Other: Group 2
- Other: Group 3 (control group)
- Sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital
- Collaborators
- Fondation Apicil
- Start date
- 2021-10-15
- Primary completion
- 2022-12-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic pain patients, i.e., chronic pain that has been ongoing for more than 3 months. * Patient follow-up in the urology department of the University Hospital of Nantes * Age between 18 and 65 * Good understanding of French, able to read and write. * Serve correctly and painlessly with both hands * Affiliated with a social security system * Signed consent * With internet access. Exclusion Criteria: * Current and unstable psychiatric (mood disorders, anxiety disorders) and addictive (substance use disorders, alcoholic or otherwise, excluding nicotine) disorders. * Does not use both hands properly and painlessly * Depression (BDI-II ≤18) * Patient under guardianship, curatorship or judicial protection * Pregnant or breastfeeding woman
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04150419